Bruce Merrifield centennial: pioneer of chemical synthesis on solid matrix
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AbstractBruce Merrifield (1921‒2006) was an American biochemist who, at the Rockefeller Institute, invented a highly efficient technique for producing peptides and proteins in the early 1960s. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984. We remember this highly original, low-profile contributor to chemistry on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of his birth.